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Context-Aware and Process-Centric Knowledge Provisioning: An Example from the Software Development Domain

  • Gregor GrambowEmail author
  • Roy Oberhauser
  • Manfred Reichert
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Abstract

With the increasing availability of information and knowledge, effective knowledge utilization is becoming a growing and key competency within organizations in various knowledge-intensive fields. One current challenge in process-oriented work, such as that exhibited in new product development projects, is the provisioning of contextually-relevant knowledge to the knowledge workers at the appropriate point in their process. This chapter provides background on technical challenges, referring to the software engineering domain to exemplify these. Thereafter, a practical solution approach based on the Context-aware Software Engineering Environment Event-driven framework (CoSEEEK) is presented. Subsequently, it is shown how automated knowledge provisioning within processes, contextual adaptation of processes, and collaborative process support can be realized.

Keywords

Context awareness Process awareness Automatic knowledge provisioning Knowledge management Semantic processing 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Gregor Grambow
    • 1
    Email author
  • Roy Oberhauser
    • 2
  • Manfred Reichert
    • 1
  1. 1.Institute for Databases and Information SystemsUlm UniversityUlmGermany
  2. 2.Computer Science DepartmentAalen UniversityAalenGermany

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